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Luther King Jr. And The Montgomery Bus Boycotts

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Blaine Wallace Mrs. Holloman AVID 05/03/16 Great Leaders Paper Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s. work and life were influenced by the fact that many African Americans in the South suffered from violence and from being treated as second class citizens. An example of how African Americans were treated was when Little rock Arkansas tried to integrate school. Elizabeth Eckford said that the people were yelling “lynch her”. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave an inspirational speech that also helped to bring an audience to their feet. The speech also strengthened the resolve of the bus boycotters. (Lapsanky-Werner 664-667) The landmark Brown vs board of education in 1954 demonstrated that “separate but equal” violated the 14th amendment of the U.S constitution. …show more content…

An example of what the Montgomery bus boycott meant to African Americans is shown when a black cook after telling her boss that she would have no part of it still participated in the event. This showed that they were willing to risk everything to get their rights.(king 19) The reason that this whole boycott started was because of a brave women named rosa Parks. She refused to give up her seat to a white person which caused her to be arrested. Some people said she wouldn’t give up her seat because she was tired, but the truth is that she had a history of being a civil rights activist.(Lapsanky-Werner …show more content…

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from the Birmingham city jail to respond to the clergy’s request to stop the demonstrations. King’s response to the clergy’s criticism about allowing outsiders into the organization was that as president of the SCLC he shared all the information that he had with all the affiliates of the organization. Another fact that King brought up was that the clergy’s response didn’t show any concern about the condition that caused the demonstrations. King also explains that the reason for the direct action was to start a path to negotiations, which he thought was a better path.(King 86-89) Jim crow laws further exasperated the work of Dr.king. In the South the Jim crow laws caused a strict separation of the the races. Because of these laws the African Americans were impacted severely impacted. This was because they were forced to occupy the very bottom of the economic ladder. Even in the North there was discrimination. This was because of unwritten law and customs which is called defacto segregation.(lapsankey-werner

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